Furniture-knob.



Patented May 17, 19047..""11

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR W. BASSICK, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE BURNS SILVER AND COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A COR PORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

FURNITURE-KNOB.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 760,298, dated May 17, 1904.

Application filed January 28, 1904. Serial No. 190,966. (No model.)

To a/ZZ tch/mn it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR W. BAssIoK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut,

5 have invented a new and useful Furniture- Knob, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to the manufacture of furniture-knobs, and has for its object to producea highly attractive and ornamental knob I adapted for general use, as upon bureaus, sewing-machines,cabinets,&c. ,which may be readily and quickly applied by any person not necessarily a skilled workman and without other tools than an ordinary bit and which shall be r so constructed that, while superior in'appear ance and in convenience of attachment to other knobs of its character, it may be produced at a cost about one-'third less than similar knobs now upon the market. This saving I effect 2o by tlte use of a cast or molded head or knob, la) dlrawn metal shank, and an ordinary wing- In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar ref- 2 5 erence characters indicate like parts, Figure l is an elevation of one form of my novel knob as in. use with the bolt-head removed, the section-line being indicated by 1 l in Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a section of the front of an article of furgo niture with the knob and drawn shank in section and the bolt and nut in elevation; Fig. 3, a front elevation illustrating' a variant form in which I have carried my invention into effeet, and Fig. a is a corresponding' sectional view showing this form of knob applied to the front of an article of furniture.

My nove] knob as a whole comprises four parts-to wit, a head or knob A, a shank B,

a bolt C, and a nut D. The special style of head or knob used is wholly unimportant, so

far as the principle of the invention is concerned. In Figs. l and 2 I have illustrated a head molded from glass or porcelain and in Figs. 8 and 4 a cast-metal head, ordinarily of brass or bronze. The head is provided with a central hole lO through it, which may be either angular or provided with lateral slots I1, as preferred, the latter form being illustrated in the drawings. Upon the back of the head I form a circular boss or hub 12, over which the outer end'of the shank lits closely, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 4, thus making both the head and the shank rigid when secured in place on an article of furniture. The shank is drawn from sheet metal and may be a piece of ordinary straighttubing, as in Fig. A, or may be formed to an ornamental configuration, as in Fig. 2. It is an essential feature of construction, however, that the outer end of the tubular shank closely engages the boss or hub on the back of the head. This drawn metal shank is an important feature of my invention. By using a piece of tubing, as in Fig. 4, or by drawing the shank from a blank of sheet metal, as in Fig. 2, I effect a great saving in the amount of metal requiredand also avoid the necessity of drilling and tapping the Shanks, as is required when they are east. In the form illustrated in Figs. 3 and iwthat is, a form in which a piece of straight tubing is used for the shank--I ordinarily provide a rosette 2O between the end of the shank and the front of the article of furniture. In Fig. 4 I have shown the rosette as provided with a central socket 21 to receive the end of the shank. In the form illustrated in Fig. 2 the rosette is dispensed with, the inner end of the shank being provided with an enlargement, as at 22, which is preferably provided with an inwardly-turned flange 13, which bears against the front of the article of furniture. The shank, as a matter of fact, in this form comprises both a shank and a rosette. The bolt is an ordinary stock-bolt, shown as provided with a rounded head la, which may of course be made ornamental, if preferred, but in low-priced knobs will be an ordinary steel bolt with the head nickeled. Back of the head the bolt may be made angular or may be provided with wings 15, as shown in the drawings. As wing-bolts and angular shank-bolts are ordinary articles of commerce, but one form has been illustrated in the drawings. 16 denotes a section of the front of an article offurniture, which is simply provided with a hole 17 for the bolt to pass through. The

inner end of the bolt is threaded, as at 18, and is engaged by a nut D on the inner side of the front of the article of furniture.

It will be seen that the act of assembling and attachment consists in placing the outer end of the shank in engagement With the boss or hub upon the back of the head, passing the bolt from the front through the head and shank and through the front of the article of furniture, and securing the knob as a whole in place thereon by means of the nut.

Having thus described my invention, I claim-d 1. A furniture-knob comprising a head having a central hole to receive a bolt and on its back a boss, a drawn shank adapted to engage the boss, a bolt adapted to pass through the knob and shank from the front and to engage an article of furniture, means for retaining the bolt against rotation in the head as Wings upon the bolt and corresponding slots in the head and a nut adapted to engagethe bolt on the inner side of the article of furniture Whereby the knob is retained in place.

2. A furniture-knob comprising a head having a central hole to receive a bolt and on its back a boss, a drawn shank the outer end of which is adapted to engage the boss and the inner endprovided with an enlargement to serve as a rosette, a bolt adapted to pass through the knob and shank from the front and to engage an article of furniture, means for preventing rotation of the knob and shank on the bolt, and means as a nut engaging the bolt on the inner side of the article of furniture to retain the knob in place.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EDGAR -W. VBASSICK.

Witnesses:

A. M. WoosTER, S; W. ATHERTON. 

